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1803réf. 1241491803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. Large 8vo 22.7 x 14.2 cm. xii 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf gilt titled backstrip marbled edges minor rubbing to backstrip and corners faint darkening to preliminary & final leaves otherwise an excellent copy with wide margins. § A large-paper copy unusually clean and with fine dark impressions of the plates. First edition of Blake's engravings after these dreamy and slightly surreal illustrations by Maria Flaxman. Provenance: Brackenburn book label of Hugh Walpole and book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister. Bentley Blake Books 471A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XLIII. unknown books
1808réf. 1238991808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly spotted image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown books
1808réf. 1238951808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown books
1808réf. 1238891808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown books
1964réf. 1239751964. Northampton MA: Gehenna Press 1964. Slim 12mo 16pp. With 6 wood-engravings 4 printed on Japan tissue all being versions of Blake's face. Original marbled wrappers printed label on upper cover mint as issued. Loosely inserted is the business card for Louis Smith of Smith Glass and Mirror in Northampton with a fine woodcut of a rooster signed by Baskin in pencil. The company is still in business in Northampton. § Limited to 500 copies but surely fewer than that this is number 26. There were also 25 de luxe copies with an extra suite of the plates. Only two copies are recorded as having sold in the last 30 years and this is the only copy we have ever seen. The letter is classic Blake to his great patron: "I hear a voice you cannot hear that says I must not stay I see a hand you cannot see that beckons me away. Naked we came here naked of Natural things & naked we shall return; but while clothed with the Divine Mercy we are richly clothed in Spiritual & suffer all the rest gladly." Bentley Blake Books 94. unknown books
1935réf. 50515bdNew York: The Pierpont Morgan Library 1935. First Edition Thus. Folio cloth-backed stiff gray wrapper with paper labels. 6 facsimiles one of text three of water colors one of pencil & wash drawings and one of etchings. A total of 110 plates. Near-Fine. The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. First Edition Thus. hardcover books
2007réf. 1232832007. New York: Center for the Book Arts 2007. Large 8vo 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins. 36pp. title-page and 12 poems on loose folded sheets each illustrated in a variety of media and signed on the verso by the illustrator. All contained in an orange folding paper wrapper. Fine. § Number 13 of an edition limited to 39 copies in all. A collaborative artist book in portfolio created by eight women students at the Center for Book Arts in New York under the direction of master printer Barbara Henry representing in letterpress and illustration twelve poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Each of the nine leaves is signed by the artist-printer. The poems and their illustrators are: The Garden of Love by Delphi Basilicato; The Fly by Amy Bronstein; A Dream by Bonnie McLaughlin; The Human Abstract by Amber McMillan; The Laughing Song/The Poison Tree by Sarah Nicholls; The Shepherd/The Tyger by Michelle Raccagni; The Blossom/The Sick Rose by Rosie Schaap; Infant Joy/Infant Sorrow by Louisa Swift; Title-page by Barbara Henry. The poems in the Songs of Innocence and of Experience contrast the spiritual freedom of childhood with the binds and hypocrisies of the adult world and are at once philosophical political and radical. Blake wrote engraved printed and colored the Songs himself making him arguably one of the first creators of an artist's book and an excellent subject for these women book artists of the 21st century. unknown books
1826réf. 1233531826. 1826. Folio single sheet 16 1/4 x 11 image inc. platemark 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Fine. § First edition from the printing of 65 sets with the word "Proof" on French wove paper. A fine impression of one of the most affecting plates in this series in which Job laments his unfortunate existence while his friends bear witness to his grief in silence Job 3:3. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake's last completed prophetic book. "It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake's most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense" S. Foster Damon A Blake Dictionary p. 217. "The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art" Ray Illustrator and the Book in England #8. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625-641C. Provenance: Sotheby's May 4& 5 1983. unknown books
1965réf. 1231301965. San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 1965. 12mo 30 pp. With 14 black and white illustrations. Near fine in pale green wrappers. § Bentley Blake Books 691: "30 Blake entries and 24 of his contemporaries". unknown books
1973réf. 1231291973. Cambridge: Harvard UP 1973. 8vo xiii 321 pp. with ten plates. Original brown cloth dust-jacket. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books A 2908: "A laborious analysis.". unknown books
1905réf. 1232791905. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1905. 8vo xxxvi 384 pp. Folding frontispiece of facsimile manuscript. Very good in original brick-red cloth with tiny chip to paper spine label spare label bound in at end. § First Edition. Bentley Blake Books 300 ".a work of pioneer scholarly importance. meticulously accurate well-balanced and intelligent unknown books
1968réf. 1232811968. Cambridge: Harvard UP 1968. 8vo 224 pages with a frontispiece and 12 plates. Original blue cloth dust-jacket. As new. § Final revised edition the best single account of Blake's manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 93 C: "Comprehends fairly full notes some related documents such as receipts and provenances." Includes importabt notes on Blake's extant manuscripts receipts etc. unknown books
1926réf. 1232721926. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70 pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published. Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Bentley BB 132. unknown books
1971réf. 1232691971. Brown UP: 1971. 4to xiv 82pp. original cloth dust-jacket. As new. § Fine reproduction of the NYPL copy with a foreword by David Erdman. Bentley Blake Books 27: "The bibliographical details are novel and important.". unknown books
réf. 1077748182. London: March 8 1828 i.e 1825 but published 1826. Single leaf recently cleaned. § First edition one of 100 sets printed directly onto Whatman wove with the word "proof" removed. Bentley Blake Books 421A. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 625-641C. unknown books
1808réf. 1077721808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. unknown books
1968réf. 1075951968. London: Trianon Press 1968. 4 vols. 8vo and 12mo Vol. I 8vo i-vii-viii 50 4 pp. Vol. II 12mo 2 pp. 22 plates Vol. III 4 pp. 31 plates Vol. IV 12mo 2 pp. 10 plates negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco volume 4 in brown cloth as issued cloth slipcase gilt lettering to backstrips of all three volumes. Backstrips slightly flaked. § Copy #14 with the first three volumes bound in morocco. From an edition of 726 total copies including 700 numbered 1 to 700 of which the first 50 have additional material and are in a special binding and 26 reserved copies lettered A-Z. Volume I is an introductory volume followed by three volumes of plates. "In about 1818 Blake revised For Children: The Gates of Paradise giving the work the new title of For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise and adding three new text plates at the end Plates 19-21. All twenty-one plates are intaglio etchings/engravings. Plates 19-20 contain brief interpretive statements keyed by number to the preceding design plates. The final plate is addressed to Satan as the "God of This fallen World." Blake Archive. Bentley BB 48. unknown books
1793réf. 1229111793. London: John Stockdale 1793. 2 vols. royal 8vo xi 225; vii 187 1 advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part frontispiece to vol. I and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Full contemporary calf rebacked a bit scuffed and untidy but quite sound internally good despite the usual browning and offsetting. § First edition with Blake's plates. The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent Wootton and Gravelot who illustrated the earlier printings of Gay's Fables. William Blake completely redesigned and redrew the 12 images for which he is responsible and is listed among the subscribers to the edition as are the other engravers who worked on this project. Blake engraved the plates opposite pp. 1 29 59 73 99 109 125 133 and 181 in volume one; and those opposite pp. 1 105 and 145 in volume two. The first issue is easily identified because it uses the long "s" throughout and the second does not. Bentley Blake Books 460A. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXVI. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 1. Note that in the list of subscribers there is a "Mr. Blake". Very few books are known to have been subscribed to by Blake. unknown books
1886réf. 1228871886. London: Quaritch 1886. 4to printed upper wrapper; 1 blank 2 Preface 3-23 text; lower wrapper unprinted. In a fine decorative marbled calf binding by de Coverley. § Limited to 50 copies facsimilied by Muir E. Druitt H.T. Muir and J.D. Watts. This copy originally numbered copy 26 and signed by Muir Muir has crossed out "26" and written "Saturday Review." Essick notes: There is No Natural Religion. The "Preface" dated 1886 indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum copy A and from some papers in my own possession copy L." However the printed front wrapper of Muir's Europe facsimile 1887 indicates that "Mr. Burt's copy H--which according to Joseph Viscomi is a forgery" was also used. This would seem to be correct since copies A and L are printed in olive and green whereas plates a1 a2 and b1 in the facsimile are in brown as in copy H. Also includes plate 2 of All Religions are One the original of which is bound into There is No Natural Religion copy M and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. Delivered to Quaritch 8 Sept. 1886. Bentley BB 249 G. unknown books
1877réf. 1229001877. London: John Pearson 1877. Large 4to 100 plates printed in black and white with black framing lines. Original upper blue-gray wrapper backstrip and lower wrapper supplied text block untrimmed. § A wonderful facsimile of copy D now at Harvard limited to 100 copies per Bentley and Keynes but an old Quaritch catalogue stated 250 an unlikely number although a copy is recorded with the number "385" on the front wrapper. This copy numbered 5 on the upper cover. Bentley attributed the publication to Chatto but revised it to Pearson in his Blake Books Supplement. The Rinder copy reproduced by the Trianon Press is in a smaller format and this large quarto has a much more imposing and appealing presence and seems to be a better facsimile - certainly this copy is clearer and more striking than copy C. Bentley BB 76 and BBS p. 88. "Blake's final and longest epic in illuminated printing constitutes a recapitulation and summation of his multiple interests ranging from his own mythology to biblical history from sexuality to epistemology and from the Druids to Newton. The cast of characters is vast but Los the artist's imagination at work in the material world Jerusalem and Albion the female and male portions of divided humanity who must be reunited the nature goddess Vala and Jesus play major roles." The Blake Archive Blake made five copies of Jerusalem but only colored one. A suite of 25 plates was also colored by Blake and a few posthumous copies were printed in tints. The one-hundred plates of Jerusalem were etched in relief with many designs in white-line etching between c. 1804 the date on the title page and 1820. unknown books
1805réf. 1228731805. Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips 1805. Small 8vo 6 212 1 indexpp. with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake. Overall a clean and very pleasing copy in contemporary calf skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrip and red label. Bookplate of Benjamin Dickinson ink signature of J.W. Dickinson dated Oct. 9th 1824 later bookplate of Walter Hirst. § First edition with plates 1-3 in the first state. An important book in the Blake canon being his second version of the Ballads after the extremely rare 1802 edition see above for the frontispiece. "For this 1805 volume Hayley added twelve ballads to the four first published in 1802. Blake engraved new plates of his designs for three of the 1802 ballads plates 1-3 and both designed and engraved new illustrations for two of the additional ballads plates 4-5. Blake and Phillips were to "go equal shares . . . in the expense and the profits" Blake's letter to Hayley of 22 January 1805 Erdman page 763. Robert Southey's mocking review of Hayley's poems and Blake's illustration to "The Dog" Plate 1 appeared in the Annual Review for 1805." Bentley BB 465. Easson and Essick WBBI Vol. I VIII. Bindman Complete Graphic Works of Blake 403-407. unknown books
réf. 110779N.p.: n.d. Single sheet 8 x 5 ins b/w engraving of a ship sinking signed "Blake sc.". § A print by the "wrong Blake" as Bentley described the various other Blakes who were artists or engravers roughly within Blake's lifetime. The ship sank in 1803; curiously a similar image but reversed and unsigned was found in Google images. unknown books
1813réf. 1107781813. London: Ackermann 1813. Single plate folio etching on wove unwatermarked paper good. § From the second folio edition. Bentley Blake Books 435. unknown books
1995réf. 1105021995. San Francisco: John Windle 1995-98-2001. 3 vols. 8vo 241 221 410 lots illustrated. Original wrappers as issued. § Three of the earliest catalogues devoted to Blake and his circle by Windle -- the latest catalogue available on request is # 65 and contains some 800 entries. unknown books
1780réf. 1106711780. London: Harrison and co. 1780-81. Single plate 10 x 7.5 ins. Browned margins foxed and chipped. § First edition thus issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy in the marketplace since. That rarity is born out by ESTC which records 4 copies in all two at the BL seriously imperfect one in Oxford Queen's College and one in North America Bentley Blake Collection at Victoria University. It is noteworthy for the profusion of illustrations from classical sources and in the five plates engraved by Blake he shows his knowledge of the work of Rubens and Raphael most likely from reproductions in earlier illustrated books. See Essick CBI VI. Bentley Blake Books 419. Darlow and Moule 1273. unknown books
